Very many ideas percolate in my mind. It is necessary to put in some restraint. Everything cannot be discussed at once. To get some order we ought to go on with next page in the glyph dictionary and let all those ideas rest for a while - usually they become better that way:

Let us look again at these 2 * 12 = 24 glyphs, maybe 12 double-months,

If Ka2-22 is located at the end of the 1st half-year, then 3 'feathers' at left may illustrate the 3 double-months of the 1st half-year. The 4 'feathers' at right could then be necessary to reach 7 to indicate the 2nd half-year as the domain of the moon.

In Ka3-11 the 5 'feathers' at left may mean the 5 dark nights between the old and new years. The 3 'feathers' at right could then, once again, refer to the 3 double-months in the 1st half-year.

The ordinal numbers (11 and 22) - together with the 'feathers' - indicate Ka2-22 and Ka3-11 are related.

Continuing one step more with these ideas, we can identify the 4 'feathers' on ariki in Ka3-9 as referring to the 2nd half-year.

The structure with 3 + 4 - we should remember - was also to be seen in the roof of the Taranaki store house:

The downward sloping part at right describes the pregnancey and birth after the death at apex. Birth and death are female in character. Sun is at left and moon (earth) at right.

Another way of reading the glyphs in K is to explain the 3 'feathers' at left as referring to the 3 preceding glyphs (Ka2-19--21) and the 4 'feathers' at right as referring to the 4 glyphs following (Ka3-1--4):

Each of the 7 glyphs referred to could then be a double-month (= 2 * 28 = 56 nights).

The first 8 glyphs (Ka2-11--18) could cover half a year, with ordinal number 18 for the last glyph. The 2nd row of 8 glyphs could cover the events of 'winter' (with the dead old year in Ka2-22). The pattern 3 + 4 in summer is reflected as 3 + 4 in winter.

In Ka3-1 (new glyph line) the beginning of the new year could be described, followed by Ka3-2--3 to inform about spring equinox and autumn equinox. Or, better, Ka3-1--2 could illustrate the first two quarters and Ka3-3--4 the quarters of the 2nd half-year.

The 'fish-tail' hakaturou (Ka2-21) could mark autumn equinox and Ka2-22 the end of the 4th quarter, while the 'fish-tail' in Ka2-12 likewise would mark spring equinox. Spring equinox could mark the end of winter and autumn equinox the beginning of winter (therefore Ka2-12 could end the 1st quarter while Ka2-21 could begin the 4th quarter).

The last line of 8 glyphs would then be a more detailed description of what happens at the end of the year. Fish with head down (Ka3-5) and pure (Ka3-7) indicates the dead dark time. Kava in Ka3-11 implies conception.

The 5 + 3 'feathers' in haú (Ka3-11) could refer to 5 + 3 = 8 periods, implying that 5 periods describe 'summer' and 3 'winter'. Ka2-20 would then be the last glyph of 'summer' (wíth ordinal number 20 indicating a final). Ka2-21 could illustrate 'winter' as a 'child'. Ka2-4 would be the last glyph of 'winter' and Ka3-5 illustrate henua ora, the 'recycling station'.

We cannot at this stage determine the precise meaning of these 24 glyphs. What we should do here is, though, to document the mago glyphs we have looked at recently:

Probably these different mago glyphs refer to different events or concepts.

There is only one sure kava glyph in Tahua, while in K I have not been able to find any more kava glyph candidate. The 'unsure' kava glyph in Tahua is Aa2-75:

With the central part of side a probably describing high summer line Aa2 should describe an earlier season. Aa2-74 (with 'spreading out' sign) is the first hau tea glyph on side a. In Aa2-73 tapa mea with 6 'feathers' are reversed - old sun is dead. Procreation ('spreading out') will follow, generated (toki at right in Aa2-73) by the old kava sun. Number 73 = 365 / 5, i.e. Aa2-73 ought to be at a cardinal point. In Aa2-75 we therefore probably are looking at kava (left) and the 'pregnant person' (right). The 'feathers' are 3 + 4 as expected.

Aa2-75 is glyph number 165 counted from the beginning of side a. Counted from the beginning of side b the ordinal number is 664 + 165 = 829, possibly meaning 8 times 29.

Aa8-31 (the sure kava glyph) is number 616 counted from the beginning of side a and number 664 + 616 = 1280 counted from the beginning of side b. 1280 = 64 * 20 = 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 5 (8, the perfect number, doublings of the number of fingers on a hand).

1280 = 256 * 5 suggest we should add one more 5 to reach 261 (9 * 29) 'hands'.